Locomotive-tender frame.



PATENTED FEB. 6, 1906.

G. H. HOW-ARI).

LOGOMOTIVE TENDER FRAME.

uruuumn' FILED nov. 22, 1905.

zz gm the event of collision the deflection of the end sill a and consequent buckling of the longitudinal sills b and b are revented.

I do not limit mysel to the referable construction above described an shown on the drawings of a bracket e, projecting from each side of the drav'wbar pocket d along its middle Eortion, or thereabout, as the bracket 2 may e virtually in one piece extend in g the entire distance between the middle longitudinal sills b below the pocket (1, to which it is inte rally united, my ob'ect being-to obtain a race to the said sills having the drawbar pocket and end sill as component parts thereof.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a locomotive-tender frame, the combination with the lon itudinal sills, of an end sill having a centra opening transversely therethrough for the draw-bar, a draw-bar pocket integral with the end sill and projecting rearwardly therefrom between t e middle lon itudinal sills, and in alinement with the sai opening, a bracket projecting from each side of, and integral with the said pocket, and with the end sill, the said brackets having their outer lateral portions adapted to bear against the middle lon itudinal sills, a

pocket projecting from the ont side of the end sill and integral therewith for receiving the buffer-springs, and means for ,fixing the said brackets and end sill res ectively, to the longitudinal sills, substantiaily as described.

2. In a locomotive-tender frame, the combination with the lon 'tudinal sills, of an end sill having a "centre opening transversely therethrough for the draw-bar, a draw-bar pocket integral with the end sill and proj ectmg rearwardly therefrom between the middle lon itudinal sills, and in alinement with the sai openin a pocket projecting from the front side 0% the end sill and integral therewith for receiving the buffer-springs, and

means for fixing the end sill to the longitudinal sills, substantially as described.

3. In a locomotive-tender frame, the combination with the lon itudinal sills, of an end sill having a centre opening transversely therethrough for the draw-bar, a pocket projecting from the front side of the end sill and integral therewith for receivin the buflersgrings, and means for fixing t e end sill to t e longitudinal sills, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

C ARENCE H. HOWARD.

Witnesses:

ELIZABETH O. TOUHEY, EDWARD W. FURRELL. 

